Those hepcats at the
Times, always in tune with the Now Generation, want the young folks to grab their Polaroid Swingers and box Brownies and make like Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans. Also like the Depression: no money, apparently.
Quote:
Son, take a good look around. This is your hometown.
Bruce Springsteen put that advice to music three decades ago. This spring, teenage photographers have the opportunity to create an updated portrait of America that reflects their vision of home. An interactive project called My Hometown, sponsored by the Lens blog of The New York Times, invites photo submissions from participants ages 14 to 18 years old.
The resulting image collection may rival the rich archive created by government-sponsored photographers during the Depression years, predicts the Lens editor James Estrin.